Don't Do It... It's So Not Worth It - Connecticut, CT

At the age of 37 I started seeing volume loss in my face. I have always had good luck with fillers in my lips and I wanted something different. I saw my regular injector and asked about juvederm (which I thought gave me a smoother result in my lips) and she suggested Voluma in my upper cheeks (1cc each side). I had no idea that it was such a long term product. I really just thought that all juvederm products were essentially the same. Ignorance at its finest.
After injection, I felt sore and achy. The next morning, I woke up and my right eye was very swollen and painful. Throughout the day it got worse and worse. Everyone kept saying that it was just from the injections, and it didn't have the symptoms of ocular occlusion.
By Friday, I couldn't take the pain anymore. I saw the injector who immediately put me on steroids. On the following Monday I saw the ophthalmologist who said that I had inflammation of the right eyelid and corneal abrasions. He felt that the lacrimal gland had possibly been affected.
It's now 9 days later and I'm still in pain. I've seen my injector, an occuplastic surgeon as well as my ophthalmologist. Nobody can tell me what's going on. I don't think anybody really know. Allergic reaction? Infection? All I want is to have the voluma removed and yet nobody will do it. The injections themselves look good - which is actually hurting my cause because I think people are dismissing how much pain I'm actually in. All of the normal swelling has subsided, except for my right eye.
Ladies DO NOT DO IT. I wish more than anything I could go back in time. I have no idea what's wrong with my eyesight. This quest to look better, younger is a roll of the dice. I will never have filler again. I hope that this is not something I'm dealing with for months or years. If anyone knows of a person with experience dissolving voluma in the CT/NY/MA area, please let me know.

And I'm still in pain. Edema under my eye (even though the voluma is in my cheek). Now a sinus infection. Nobody really knows what to do with me.... I have visited a plastic surgeon and he said to give it more time to settle and that maybe it's effecting a nerve. The ophthalmologist is referring me to a specialist and suggesting I see an ENT to see if my sinuses are effected by the voluma (which is rare, but I have read about other instances of this). More than anything I want to get this stuff removed but I'm terrified of having more inflammation because of what happened to my eye initially. Do I take my chances and try to dissolve it? Do I wait it out? And, of course, no doctor wants to remove it because even though it sounds easy when they're selling it to you (hyaluronic acid is magically reversible!!! Errrr....Or it is if we can inject it exactly where the original injector put it... and since it's voluma it's going to take a few times....And repeated doses might impact your skin or dissolve it unevenly... so why don't we give it a few more weeks....).

WORST DECISION OF MY LIFE. This is really life-changing and has completely caused me to revisit what's important in life. Guess what? The wrinkles don't seem to matter as much anymore. I just want my health back

Ok, so now I'm finally getting somewhere in figuring out what has happened to my face. I'm dealing with lymph blockage which is causing eye problems and sinus infections. This is beyond frustrating that doctors aren't taking this seriously. Everyone keeps saying - just give it more time! I've been ill for a month, isn't that enough???